Surgeon Simulator
Fair · Action · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $0.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.3h
- Value
- $0.30/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce 7800 GT or better, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Surgeon Simulator is an over-the-top operation sim, stitching together pitch-black humour with life-saving surgery. Become Dr. Burke, a would-be surgeon with a less than conventional toolkit, as he performs procedures on patients including the Heavy from TF2! ...is that a hammer?
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
March 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. It has been discounted 102 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $0.99 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 54. The current cut is what makes it a 64.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Octodad: Dadliest Catch ($14.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats I Am Bread ($12.99, scores 35).
Critics scored it 71. Players sit 11 points higher at 82 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
30 of the 699 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 512 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 4,695 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
3.3 hours to finish it, 15 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
79% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
11 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
When the patient woke up, his skeleton was missing, and the doctor was never heard from again! Anyway, that's how I lost my medical license.
This game went so hard on my iPod Touch during class in JR High School 12 years ago.
Very hard, i don't know how videos make it seem smooth and flawless. Trying to grab and hold tools is most of the game, then you knock something important off the table and have to restart. This game is for the most patient of players.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Surgeon Simulator scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/233720/surgeon-simulatorThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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